核聚變發表文章，在受控熱核聚變領域取得重大進展。期刊范圍包括:高溫等離子體的產生、加熱和限制;這些等離子體的物理性質;探索或解釋它們的實驗或理論方法;聚變反應堆物理;反應堆概念;和融合技術。該雜志有一個專門的慣性約束聚變副編輯。

Nuclear Fusion publishes articles making significant advances to the field of controlled thermonuclear fusion. The journal scope includes:the production, heating and confinement of high temperature plasmas;the physical properties of such plasmas;the experimental or theoretical methods of exploring or explaining them;fusion reactor physics;reactor concepts; andfusion technologies.The journal has a dedicated Associate Editor for inertial confinement fusion.